Good Morning Mission! 12.21.12

If you’re reading this then we’ve made it, the world hasn’t ended and we should probably celebrate right? How about with a grilled cheese sandwich in the new year? Grubstreet reports that American Grilled Cheese Kitchen will be opening its Mission location (in the former Cafe Gratitude space) in early January.

Co-owner Heidi Gibson told Grubstreet that they’ll start with breakfast and lunch and then add dinner service in February.

Consider the case of Noe Valley, which implemented a ban on restaurants and coffee shops in the 1980s. The concerns were the same: new food establishments would push rents to the skies, residents wouldn’t be able to afford to go out to eat, and the street would turn into an upscale food court. And of course there was always the scary g-word - gentrification. TO READ MORE CLICK HERE